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These are some thoughts I scribbled down yesterday, and I wondered if anyone could comment or point me towards some reading matter on the subject. Driving along today I began to reflect on the photographs I added to the Reside […]

So it’s been a while since I posted. Mainly this is due to the fact that it’s been a bit of a strange few months in which I’ve not been too sure what to write. Over most of this time […]

IAN IRVINE Most of my work involves using images, phrases, and appropriated aspects of popular culture to make (mostly) prints and paintings which draw on traditions from inside the canon of 20th century art, but also ‘encompass’ many other areas […]

Well…a lot of work going on in the back room here, but I have got to the point that I no longer know if things are hanging together well or quite where to go next. I think I need to […]

A song for your listening pleasure… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EAIfdIM2TI&feature… That ol’ Cor Blimey crew is back together again at Core @ Nolias Gallery for a show entitled (A)Wake. (A)Wake was prompted by losses of loved ones by some of the artists involved. […]

Things have calmed down the last two weeks, I’ve managed to get into the studio a few times and actually have started making some new pieces! Nothing is finished yet, but at least I don’t feel so stagnant. My studio […]

As Memory Foam moves forward and I form ideas for Oasis including words and phrases that I could build on Oasis frames (see previous post DAD) I’ve been researching the types of messages most commonly written, often by the flower […]

Yesterday I visited Andre Stitt’s studio in Cardiff with MA and MFA candidates from CSAD. We talked about the role of the studio in art practice. During the tour, we discussed rituals associated with studio work. Sifting, sorting, prioritizing and […]

A New Studio I have taken another positive step towards rebuilding my practice. I have a new studio space! I am sharing a studio with Katie Goodwin, with whom I worked with successfully in the past during the MA. We […]

interesting artivcle about goth culture etc….. http://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/music/2012/apr/26/goth-life-fields-nephilim

I haven’t updated this blog in a while due to the demise of a relationship, a blessing in disguise for both my personal and professional life. My posting abilities were also inhibited by a seriously hectic schedule. I threw myself […]

Cardiff goings on. Last night, was a very busy day for art in Wales. There was the opening of the solo show of Richard Cox work at Howard Gardens Gallery; The opening of The Institute of Critical Zoologists at Chapter […]

Exposed Materials and Processes in Art Practice: I love it when art-bloggers write in detail about their materials and methods. Very helpful, indeed. Stephen B. MacInnis from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island is very, very good at communicating regarding this aspect […]

It is amazing that my degree course seems to have disappeared without a trace. The authority that converts (‘translates’?) foreign qualifications to ones that Swedish institutions (and employers) recognises is having a hard time with my Art & Social Context […]

Crocuses (or is it Croci?) in a Berlin cemetry..

a peaceful place for a chair in the sun, It was when I found this that I decided to draw outside again..

Victoria Redgrave – Installation Life isn’t always what we want it to be, it has its up’s and down’s. Society consists of all kinds of people and backgrounds in every imaginable situation. We can become immune to the issues that […]

Jacqui Thomson – Textiles I am a textile artist who uses embroidery and the art of the stitch to explore feminist themes, ideals and the everyday lives of women. Women have always stitched, be it purely for pleasure or out […]

My current work is about the inability to define, to stereotype, to group and to mark. It is about the challenges faced by a generation immersed in a virtual reality that consequentially affects the harsh reality of the world beyond […]

Most of my work has been about the definition of art, truth and authenticity, why we are artists and why we choose to create. What happens if you give an artist a pencil, pen, tube of paint or a video […]

First post, Friday 27th April. Well, the cheque from ACE dropped onto the mat a day or two ago, so this seems like a good time to start. Ok. This project is to develop a piece I made last year […]

Today I have been trying to get the last few bits and pieces ready for workshops over the next couple of weeks. Within a restricted amount of workshop time, there is always the practical problem of how long things take […]